{"id":1960642,"date":"2023-06-29T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broward-coward-scot-peterson-acquitted-on-all-charges-over-response-to-parkland-shooting\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:45:35","slug":"broward-coward-scot-peterson-acquitted-on-all-charges-over-response-to-parkland-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broward-coward-scot-peterson-acquitted-on-all-charges-over-response-to-parkland-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot Peterson, dubbed &#8216;Broward Coward,&#8217; cleared of all charges in Parkland shooting response."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbroward-coward-scot-peterson-acquitted-on-all-charges-over-response-to-parkland-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former School Resource Officer Found Not Guilty in Parkland Shooting Case<\/h2>\n<p>Former School Resource Officer Scot Peterson was found not guilty on Thursday of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ammon-bundy-supporters-to-protest-in-idaho-on-wednesday-over-his-arrest\/\" title=\"Ammon Bundy Supporters to Protest in Idaho on Wednesday Over His Arrest\">charges stemming<\/a> from his much-criticized response to the 2018 massacre at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/parkland-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, who worked for the Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office, was charged in 2019 \u201cwith seven counts of neglect of a child and three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/parkland-shooting-verdict-jury-reaches-decision-scot-peterson-rcna91145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/06\/29\/scot-peterson-trial-parkland-shooting-verdict\/\">faced<\/a> up to nearly 100 years in prison for each count of child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson was dubbed \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Broward<\/span> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Coward\u201d for failing to confront the shooter for nearly 45 minutes during the tragedy where 17 people were murdered and 17 more were injured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A Florida jury found former Parkland school resource officer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ScotPeterson?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ScotPeterson<\/a> NOT GUILTY of all charges related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-atf-nominee-failed-to-disclose-china-backed-propaganda-network-interview-may-have-been-used-to-cover-up-a-mass-stabbing-of-children\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s ATF Nominee Failed To Disclose China-Backed Propaganda Network Interview, May Have Been Used \u2018To Cover Up A Mass Stabbing Of Children\u2019\">school massacre<\/a> at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Peterson was acquitted of child neglect and culpable negligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dPxbxXg394\">pic.twitter.com\/dPxbxXg394<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Law&#038;Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawCrimeNetwork\/status\/1674503894347444241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Peterson\u2019s response, or lack thereof, was so controversial that it drew the attention of top officials across the country, including former President Donald Trump, who slammed Peterson just a few days after the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it came time to get in there and do something, he didn\u2019t have the courage or something happened. But he certainly did a poor job. There\u2019s no question about that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThat\u2019s a case where somebody was outside, they\u2019re trained, they didn\u2019t act properly or under pressure or they were a coward. It was a real shock to the police department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-grants-26-pardons-and-3-commutations-includes-numerous-prominent-names\/\" title=\"Trump Grants 26 Pardons And 3 Commutations, Includes Numerous Prominent Names\">breaking news story<\/a>; refresh the page for updates.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former School Resource Officer Scot Peterson was acquitted of all charges related to his response during the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Peterson, employed by Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office, faced charges of neglecting children and failing to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1960643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}